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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Here's visitors indeed!" says Brede, showing Isak and Eleseus into the room with the new lamp. "And I'd never thought to see. Isak, you're never going away yourself, and all?" "Nay, only to the smith's for something, 'tis no more." "Ho! 'Tis Eleseus, then, going off south again?"
When the winter came, Isak threshed his corn on the new threshing-floor, and Inger helped him often, with an arm as quick to the work as his own, while the children played in the haystalls at the side. It was fine plump grain.
"Sivert." "And the other one?" "Eleseus." "And he's in an engineer's office what's he reckon to learn there? A starvation-business. Much better have come to me," said Geissler. "Ay," said Isak, for politeness' sake. He felt a sort of pity for Geissler at the moment. Oh, that good man did not look as if he could afford to keep clerks; had to work hard enough by himself, belike.
"A ring?" said the man. "A finger ring. Ay, I've grown that high and mighty now I must give my wife a ring." "Do you want a silver one, or gold, or just a brass ring dipped to look like gold?" "Let's say a silver ring." The storekeeper thought for a while. "Look you, Isak," he said.
Isak lifts the sheep and sets it free; it falls to grazing at once. The lamb makes for its mother and sucks away a blessed relief for the wounded udder to be emptied now. Isak gathers stones and fills up the dangerous cleft; a wicked place; it shall break no more sheep's thighs! Isak wears leather braces; he takes them off now and fastens them round the sheep's middle, as a support for the udder.
Now Oline had heard from the way Isak spoke that he was stiff-necked and unreasonable in his mind, and she would make the most of it. "What was that you said, Isak? Sixteen goats? There's no more than fifteen," said she. Isak looked at her, and Oline looked at him again, straight in the face. "Not sixteen goats?" said he.
Even the cows know that something unusual is going on, and give tongue in their own fashion, for Inger goes out every now and then, calling aloud towards the woods, though it is near night. It is an event in the wilderness, a general misfortune. Now and again she gives a long-drawn hail to Isak, but there is no answer; he must be out of hearing. Where are the sheep what can have come to them?
He swings round in four big angles, goes over a good bit of ground, swings round, drives, cuts grass, passes along by where the women are standing; they are dumbfounded, it is all beyond them, and Brrr! says the machine. Then Isak stops and gets down. Longing, no doubt, to hear what these folk on earth down there will say; what they will find to say about it all.
Isak had felt ashamed of himself after all for the sake of a Daler, a trifle of money, that he would have had to give her after all, because he himself would gladly have let the boy have it. And then again was not the money as much Inger's as his own? There came a time when Isak found it his turn to be humble. There came many sorts of times.
"Like to know, now suppose he'd a bit of land of his own...." "How do you mean?" "If he'd work on a place of his own?" "No." "Well, have you said anything?" "Said anything? Can't you see for yourself? No, I don't see anything in him Eleseus, that way." "Don't sit there talking ill of him," said Isak impartially. "All I can see is, he's doing a good day's work down there."
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